Comments Thread For: Demetrius Andrade To Sign With Matchroom, Fight on DAZN

[sicko]

Finally a good career move for Andrade...Hopefully!

[Butch.McRae]

This was obvious. And this is great for Andrade who will get paid and hopefully become active now.

So this is definitely heading into a purse bid. DAZN has a bunch of money to throw out, and I don't think Warren will have him BJS vacate if he loses the purse bid.

One of the signing I predicted last week.

BJS will vacate and fight Degale. I imagine the winner will have an eye towards the Groves v. Smith winner.

Good move for Andrade but I'm not sure how much it will move the needle for him yet.

We all saw this one coming.

[Vinnykin]

Hearn will 100% bid for a mandatory shot at the WBO world title with Saunders. He needs meaningful fights to launch Dazn in the U.S and gets to one-up Warren as well.

After Warren's tweet yesterday saying they won't vacate, he will have no option but to go through with the fight.

[KTFOKING]

So true; I agree. This is the best career move he has made in years.

Will be interesting to see what happens to Jermall Charlo now. He is kind of being left out of the mix, but he is the mandatory for the WBC belt so he better hope for a Golovkin win. If Canelo wins, he will be required to defend it against Charlo....probably ever like Mayweather lol. And if Canelo/GGG rematch is close, who is to say they don't have a trilogy?

[Randall Cunning]

I know it's all preliminary talks and optional at this point, however if he did pursue his mandatory status as the #1 contender for the WBO title why won't the fight happen?

Warren has his sights set on a big fight 15 Sep for Saunders at the 02. Hearn will take this fight off him and put it on DAZN with his abundance of cash. Gunna need a masterstroke for Warren and Saunders to worm their way out of this and still have the title

[KTFOKING]

BJS will vacate and fight Degale. I imagine the winner will have an eye towards the Groves v. Smith winner.

Good move for Andrade but I'm not sure how much it will move the needle for him yet.

We all saw this one coming.

Well, it puts him in better position to at least fight Jacobs. And he will fight for the belt regardless of BJS vacating or not. If BJS wants to go the SMW route? Then that is fine. But he isn't getting Smith that easy as it will be BT Sports vs Matchroom. Only time these two are working together or having fighters fight off is if the fight goes to a purse bid.

Andrade winning a belt also puts him in position to fight either GGG/Canelo. I mean GGG is all about the belts right?

[Butch.McRae]

I know it's all preliminary talks and optional at this point, however if he did pursue his mandatory status as the #1 contender for the WBO title why won't the fight happen?

They'd order him and that guy behind him to fight for the belt right?

So that's the likely scenario here imo. Saunders will vacate and Andrade will fight Walter Kautobdokwo for the WBO title.

[Motorcity Cobra]

Saunders vs Andrade is definitely not happening

Why you say that? They can hold the fight in the UK and DAZN can broadcast it in the US

[Mammoth]

Why you say that? They can hold the fight in the UK and DAZN can broadcast it in the US

I don't know. We'll see how ot plays out. For a fight between two lesser known fighters the purse bid for this should end up pretty big. If Andrade takes the fight and wins then Hearn is a genius.

[Butch.McRae]

Well, it puts him in better position to at least fight Jacobs. And he will fight for the belt regardless of BJS vacating or not. If BJS wants to go the SMW route? Then that is fine. But he isn't getting Smith that easy as it will be BT Sports vs Matchroom. Only time these two are working together or having fighters fight off is if the fight goes to a purse bid.

Andrade winning a belt also puts him in position to fight either GGG/Canelo. I mean GGG is all about the belts right?

It's works for Andrade. I'm just pointing out that Degale and Saunders have been linked for a minute.

That's the "big fight" for Saunders.